Leadership of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including climate experts, will meet on Thursday, July 20, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the recent extreme weather events.
The meeting will also provide an opportunity for attendees to discuss how NASA research and data can further enable climate solutions.
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Millions of Americans are currently experiencing the effects of extreme weather, from wildfires raging across North America, flooding in the Northeast, heatwaves across the Southwest and a record hot June.
Among those expected at the crucial meeting include:
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Kate Calvin, NASA chief scientist and senior climate adviser, Karen St. Germain, director, NASA’s Earth Science Division, Gavin Schmidt, director, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Tom Wagner, associate director for Earth Action.
Others are Huy Tran, aeronautics director, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Carlos Del Castillo, chief, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The meeting is open to U.S. media in person, or U.S. media and international media virtually.
Story was adapted from NASA.
